The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-15
THE EAST.

a MONUMENT 10 Tue ialG GGn6Idl DuEu-
side was unveiled at Providence. r. l.. on
The 9TH. The work is OF bronze and repre-
sents the General on horseback nine feet
high
THE other morning a man by the name of
Glacua Evans Olds was found dead in his
room IN New York, dressed in woman's
clothes
AN anronaut named Clarage has died in
Olean, n. Y, from the effects Of a fall from
his balloon on the 4th
THE comedian Edward Lamb died at
Brooklyn recently. His trouble was
cancer Of the stomach. He was fifty-eIght
years old and had been an actor for thirty
hve years
JUSTICE GoRMAN at New York the other
day committed Vintrolia Van Rensselaer,, a
ten-year-old colored girl, to the House Of
Mercy, but the sister of mercy in charge
refused to receive her because she was
colored.
In q speech at Scranton, Pa. the other
evening, T.'V. Powderly urged the neces-
sity for restraint ON immigration. He want
ed all new comers to have been self-sup-
porting at their old homes.
WHILE Postmaster Flanagan and his
clerks were delivering mail at Astoria, l.
l., the other day some person entered the
rear OF the Office and carried of a book Of
blank postal notes, together with the
stamps and punches used in issuing them.
CLARENDON, Pa, was swept by fire on
the night of the 4th. But very little was
left of the place. the loss amounting to
S5OlO0O
TUE mortality Of New York excites
alarm. On the 4th 200 deaths occurred ON
the 5th, 2OS
SIX suicides were reported in New York
in one day recently.
NINE persous were seriously injured by
the fall Of the roof Of a dining hall during
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Church at Susquehanna, Pa, on the 9Th.
RICHARD CRoNAN, while attempting TO
swim across Niagara river recently, start
ing from the maid of the MIST landing,
was caught in a current and carried down
through the whirlpool rapids. He was
from Boston.
JOHN sLADE & Co, dry goods, New York,
have assigned. Preferences, S3O2, 10.
THE attendants, McHugh and Cleary, who
were lately placed in custody by the YER
dict Of tho coroner's jury, who accused
them Of beating an inmate Of Wards Island
Insane Asylum, named George Farris, sc
brutally that the man died, have been in
dicted for manslaughter by the New York
grand jury.
YAM PHoN LEE, a Chinaman who gradu
ated with high honors at Yale recently, has
been married to Miss Elizabeth Maud Je
rome, q New Haven, Conn, heiress.
AT a meeting of the First Assembly dis
trict of the United Labor party at New
York Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn was elect
ed n delegate to the national convention al
Syracuse on August 16
MARK SHANNON, a we'll known sculptor
while az work on the Government building
az Erie, Pa, recently, fell from the roof Il
tho ground. He was picked up dead.
THE works Of the Conesus Lake Salt anC
Mining Company at Lalxeviue, NY, burned
the other day. Loss, $4,000
THE Boston Daily Advertiser and the EUell
iRg Record have been sold to Charles E
Within, OF Whitinsville, for 100000. Tn,
~ stock OF the old corporation is wiped out
and all OF the old stockholders retire from
theownership IN the new concern.
FORTY ladies took the white and blacl
wells at the Malinckrodt (German) conven
"a Wilxesbarre, Pa, on the 9th.
JUDGE WALLACE, OF the United State
Circuit Court at New York, has given a lie
cision in the case OF the United State
against General Badeau to recover $40, 81
which IL was claimed that he had KEEP
while he was Consul General at London
The result was a verdict in favor Of thu
General.
AN explosion Of gun cotton at the celu
loid works at Arlington, N. j., caused tn
deaths OF man and a woman recently. 4
dozen others were injured. Loss, S50,OOl
WALTER VRooMAN, a socialistic Knigh
Of Labor, was snubbed on a recent visit q
tho headquarters at Philadelphia.
A RIOT was reported at the West Leisen
ring (Pa) coke works on the 9Th. Four o
the strikers were shot and killed and tw
wounded. Later the reports were denied
An excited feeling prevailed all over tn
coke region.
CYRUS w. FIELD published card in New
York the other morning stating that h
and Gould were on tho best OF terms an
that reports 20 the contrary were false
He (Neld) and associates had sold 800
shares OF Manhattan TO Gould, but ther
would be no change in the directory.
SEVEN hundred Of DR.. McGlynn's forme
parishioners recently held meeting a
which the Pope and Archbishop Corrlga
were jeered at and threats OF excommun
cation defed.